Hey there, 

Thanks for the breakdown for all of this.

I'm a long time user of Org Mode in my every day work as a Technical Support Engineer with the past two jobs I've had, so its awesome how easy it is to possibly contribute to it, as I really really really do think Org Mode and Emacs are awesome.

Thanks for this, will see how I can help as I would love to improve my Elisp skills a bit.

I'll look to see if there are low-hanging fruit type issues that are easy to modify first on the Sourcehut repo.

Thanks,

Sam

On Wed, Sep 29, 2021, at 4:18 PM, Bastien wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I would like to briefly expose how things work for orgmode.org.
> 
> https://orgmode.org/worg/ is populated by .org pages from the Worg
> repo after each push: https://git.sr.ht/~bzg/worg
> 
> Worg is maintained by Krupal and Corwin Brust.  Anyone is welcome to
> contribute: https://orgmode.org/worg/worg-about.html
> 
> https://orgmode.org is populated by .org pages from the orgweb repo
> after each push: https://git.sr.ht/~bzg/orgweb
> 
> So far, only Timothy, Nicolas and me do have write access, these pages
> are not supposed to be updated very often. The Org maintainer needs to
> update the orgweb/Changes.org page for each release.
> 
> https://orgmode.org/elpa/ is here for backward compatibility and will
> be removed before the release of Org 9.6.
> 
> The https://orgmode.org contents are hosted on my machine.
> 
> https://updates.orgmode.org is also hosted on my machine.  I plan to
> work on improving Woof! in the next months to make it more stable and
> (hopefully) usable and useful, but it helps a lot already.
> 
> https://list.orgmode.org is the public-inbox archive of the mailing
> list.  It's hosted and maintained by Kyle.  The mailing list archives
> are also here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/
> 
> https://stats.orgmode.org was used to provide some stats about
> orgmode.org visitors via a Fathom instance, but it is gone.  Here is
> the interesting bit: there are ~30K visitors by month.  AFAIK, this
> number as been remarkably stable for the last ten years.
> 
> https://code.orgmode.org is gone: it was nice testing Gogs, which
> served us well for very long, but was not necessary anymore.  Also,
> using Gogs required some maintainance (spamalot) and led newcomers to
> believe they had to create an account on it to contribute, whereas we
> prefer to receive/read/review patches on the mailing list.  Relying
> on https://git.savannah.gnu.org is the way to go.
> 
> Publishing Worg pages used to involve scripts on the server that we
> don't need anymore: the HTML page are generated by a SourceHut build
> and sent to the server.  Same for orgweb.
> 
> Releasing Org also used to require actions on the server: it does not
> anymore.  Releasing Org only requires to update the "Version:" header,
> which triggers the release of the GNU ELPA package, which is now the
> preferred way of installing the last stable Org version.
> 
> This setup makes many things a lot easier!
> 
> - I'm really glad Kyle maintains list.orgmode.org: it's really cool
>   and useful, searching the list archives is lightening fast.
> 
> - Migrating the contents served by orgmode.org is just a matter of
>   rsync'ing to another server.
> 
> - No need to maintain the Gogs instance and the Fathom instance.
> 
> - Releasing is now a breeze.
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> -- 
> Bastien
> 
>